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A panel of educators has selected New Haven Academy’s Marco Cenabre (pictured above) as the city’s teacher of the year.
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by | Jul 18, 2023 9:26 am | Comments (1)
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Board of Police Commissioners weighs the specs question.
Officer Evan Kelly and Det. Paul Vakos won’t have to dip into their own pockets to cover the full costs of replacing two pairs of eyeglasses each has broken over the past year while on the job for the New Haven Police Department.
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by | Jul 17, 2023 3:04 pm | Comments (8)
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Justin Bialecki taking the oath Monday: City born and raised.
The city’s fire department looked around the country to find its next assistant chief — and ended up selecting a longtime member of their own firehouses here at home..
by | Jul 10, 2023 9:35 am | Comments (1)
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At Friday's Community Action Agency job fair.
Milani Glass and her family once turned to the Community Action Agency of New Haven (CAANH) for help making ends meet. She’s now the Whalley Avenue social service hub’s health literacy and outreach coordinator.
On Friday, Glass sought to help recruit future colleagues-to-be at a job fair focused on available work at her former lifeline-turned-current employer.
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by | Jul 5, 2023 8:44 am | Comments (1)
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Kristin Washington meets with job-pitchers from state Department of Aging and Disability Services.
Kristin Washington showed up to the Fair Haven public library fueled by a dream to work in public health — and ready to find out if state government employment could be the right career path for her now that’s she graduated from college and hunting for a job.
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by | Jun 23, 2023 11:08 am | Comments (1)
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Schools Supt. Iline Tracey at WNHH FM.
Show you care. Even when you need to be firm.
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by | Jun 20, 2023 3:01 pm | Comments (1)
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Mercedes Jackson parked her Nissan Altima Coupe in the going-out-of-business Whalley EbLens parking lot Tuesday to enjoy a “7.2” breakfast and catch a few private minutes before “hitting my first client.
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by | Jun 15, 2023 8:55 am | Comments (10)
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Officer Daniel Evans: "This is what I signed up for."
Officer Daniel Evans didn’t know when he reported to work that he would need to rush to save a man from leaping to his death. But when the moment arrived, he was ready — because he had prepared.
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Driver Noel: It'll help.
Surveillance video will capture not just what rowdy bus riders do, but what they say, starting next month.
by | Jun 13, 2023 5:17 pm | Comments (15)
Key video-recorded moments of the Randy Cox incident.
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Kayla Vinson and John Velleca at WNHH FM: "Those are fireable offenses."
New Haven sent a signal by firing officers who paralyzed Randy Cox — with different interpretations of what that signal is.
by | Jun 13, 2023 2:19 pm | Comments (2)
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Almando Clarke took a cloth and bucket inside a van parked on the New Haven Green Tuesday as empty stages and tents all around him awaited another afternoon and evening crowd for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
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by | Jun 12, 2023 4:55 pm | Comments (2)
Police Chief Karl Jacobson is eliminating one level of oversight and asking one supervisor to “double up” in the wake of two top-level retirements in his department.
by | Jun 7, 2023 4:16 pm | Comments (1)
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Rodriguez with Zoe in Wooster Square Park.
Zoe got an extra walk through Wooster Square Park Wednesday morning so her owner could get some air before hunkering down to six hours of indoor Zoom.
by | Jun 7, 2023 4:09 pm | Comments (7)
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Officer Chin: Daily dilemmas.
While policymakers and politicians and activists and boards of nonprofit organizations continued to debate how to end homelessness, Police Officer Christopher Chin had to figure out what to do with Michael.
Right then. In the rain. On a Saturday at 8:52 a.m.
by | Jun 6, 2023 4:38 pm | Comments (8)
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In support: 884 Prez Kymberly Bray and 3144 Prez Gildemar Herrera.
Over 800 city workers have a contract for the first time in nearly three years, now that the Board of Alders has approved two key labor agreements that grant long-awaited raises to public employees.
by | Jun 5, 2023 4:17 pm | Comments (8)
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Firefighter Nathaniel Peragallo accompanies rescued construction worker on aerial rescue.
Capt. Ryan Almeida looked down into a 30-foot hole where a concrete deck had collapsed and a construction worker was now buried in rubble. He and his crew had to figure out a way to pull the man out. Fast.
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by | May 26, 2023 8:29 am | Comments (21)
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Top row, in favor of the contract: Philip Modeen, Raymond Jackson, Robert Mignosa; Middle row, in favor of the contract: Justin Augustine Sr., Charles Blango, Thomas White; Bottom row, against the contract: Helen Rosenberg, Michael Mahon.
An overdue labor agreement for one of the city’s largest unions was hailed by proponents for awarding substantial raises to most — and decried by some municipal employees who won’t get as much of a salary bump.
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by | May 25, 2023 1:16 pm | Comments (11)
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Now-retired ex-public works head Jeff Pescosolido.
Long-time city servant and public works director Jeff Pescosolido has stepped down, leaving Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Rebecca Bombero to fill his post until the Elicker administration finds a permanent replacement.
by | May 25, 2023 10:48 am | Comments (3)
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Officers Alethia Moore & Daniel McLawrence: They had different careers in mind.
A man fled the Cedar Hill neighborhood one recent morning after firing a bullet at a passing car at close range. Within minutes, police officers found the shell casing, then the alleged shooter, then the gun.
That didn’t require a car or foot chase. It didn’t require anyone ducking bullets.
by | May 24, 2023 12:22 pm | Comments (1)
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Current library admin and incoming top city librarian Maria Bernhey.
A current city library administrator and New York Public Library veteran has risen the ranks to become the next head of New Haven’s national award-winning public library system, roughly one year after the death of the city’s former top librarian.
by | May 22, 2023 12:49 pm | Comments (4)
A rendering of the future childcare site on Flint Street.
Ten new early childhood classrooms to accommodate 80 more kids in need of care are one big step closer to coming to an ex-Flint Street movie theater this summer, thanks to an approval by local land-use commissioners.
by | May 22, 2023 9:31 am | Comments (4)
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Eddie Freeman: “Everybody's hiring, and if you want it, you can get it.”
Dozens of New Haveners on the hunt for new work turned out to the Green to learn about employers, participate in job interviews, and explore training and career-building programs.
by | May 18, 2023 9:13 am | Comments (9)
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A car was driving the wrong way down the street yet again. Christopher Nguyen knew that can mean trouble.
by | May 17, 2023 3:26 pm | Comments (6)
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Vilmarie Ayala emerged from The Meat King market Wednesday morning with no meat.
She did have a smile. Thanks to the 3‑year-old girl running around the quiet parking lot playing with cardboard boxes.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Grand Avenue: Where's The Beef?’
by | May 15, 2023 3:30 pm | Comments (0)
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The pastrami egg and cheese sandwiches were flying at a George Street construction site Monday as Jillian Ledic kept a food truck moving so her moms could bring some of the trickle-down dollars of New Haven’s construction boom to Vegas.
Continue reading ‘Word On George Street: Boomtime Breaktime’